Impact of Religious Involvement and Religious Commitment on Post-Pandemic Well-Being among Chinese University Students

Abstract

This article reports on research exploring how religious involvement and commitment are related to post-pandemic well-being among Chinese university students. The Religious Commitment Inventory-10, the Religious Involvement Scale, and the Post-Pandemic Well-Being Scale were administered to 1739 university students selected from 119 comprehensive universities. Results showed that religious involvement and religious commitment significantly and positively predicted post-pandemic well-being beyond demographic variables. The significance of religious education and the limitations and contributions of this research are also discussed.

Keywords:

• religious involvement
• religious commitment
• post-pandemic well-being

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Shandong University Education and Teaching Reform Research Project (2021Y148); the National Social Science Fund, China (12&ZD010).

Notes on contributors

Xiaozhong Hu

Xiaozhong Hu Associate Professor, Center for Judaic and Inter-religious Studies, School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University, Jinan, China. He is also Fellow in Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole, the University of Hong Kong. His major research areas are religion education, religion psychology, and Buddhist history.

Sanyin Cheng

Sanyin Cheng, Professor of School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University, Jinan, China. Her major research areas are educational psychology and special education. Email: [email protected]

Yueshan Lai

Yueshan LAI, Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy and Social Development, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China. He was the visiting scholar of Academia Sinica (2017.6-8), Chinese University of Hong Kong (2017.9-11), and Peking University (2018.9-2019.6). His major research areas are intellectual history of China and sociology of religion in modern China.